The Body
Published on 11. September 2005
232 pages
978-0-230-21336-4 (ISBN)
Description
What do we mean when we talk about 'the body'? This Reader challenges the assumption that it can be invoked as a neutral, or indeed natural, point of reference in critical discussion or cultural practice. The essays collected here foreground the historical construction of 'the body' throughout a range of discourses from the modern to the postmodern, and seek to present it not as a biological 'given', but as a contestable signifier in the articulation of identities.
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TIFFANY ATKINSON is Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK.
Content
General Editor's Preface.- Acknowledgements.- DEPTHS.- Introduction; T.Atkinson.- The Renaissance Body: From Colonization to Invention; J.Sawday.- Second Meditation: Of the Nature of the Human Mind and that it is Easier to Know than the Body; R.Descartes.- A Case of Hysteria: Fräulein Elisabeth Von R.; S.Freud.- The Incitement to Discourse; M.Foucault.- DIFFERENCE.- Seduction and Guilt; C.Clément.- 'Who Kills Whores?', 'I Do,' says Jack: Race and Gender in Victorian London; S.L.Gilman.- Nietzscheanism and the Novelty of the Superman; M.Boscagli.- Male Bodies and the 'White Terror'; K.Theweleit.- The Fact of Blackness; F.Fanon.- DECONSTRUCTIONS.- Womanliness as Masquerade; J.Riviere.- The Anorexic Body: Reading Disorders; A.Bray.- Bodies That Matter; J.Butler.- Intensities and Flows; E.Grosz.- E.Probyn.- Piercings; M.Torgovnick.- Summaries and Notes.- Notes on Contributors.- Suggestions for Further Reading.- Index.
